Outgoing US President Joe Biden's approach to supporting Ukraine exposes the irresponsibility of his administration and calls into question the strategic thinking of the current head of state, Noah Rothman, a columnist for the National Review magazine, said in an op-ed.
"Whatever else there is to say about this strategy, it exposes the Biden administration’s fecklessness," the article says. "Its strategic thinking was forever clouded by the overinterpretation of signals emanating from everywhere except Ukraine’s battlefields."
At the same time, the decision to allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use long-range American ATACMS missiles to strike deep into Russian territory, as indicated, turned out to be belated and associated with the desire to give the Ukrainian military more options before the arrival of the elected US President Donald Trump.
"Biden’s reluctant acquiescence to one of Ukraine’s long-sought requests calls into question the president’s strategic thinking, such as it is," the columnist said.
He added that if the only reason the United States allowed Ukraine to use ATACMS to strike deep into Russia is that Trump might not do so, then "that is an indictment of the Biden administration’s conduct of this war."
The publication emphasized that as a result of Biden's actions, Ukraine has already found itself in a situation where its population is set to ask for peace, and the best outcome for the West could be another frozen conflict, which in the long term will lead to new crises along the contact line and worsen the security situation in Europe.
"The present administration has spent the duration of this war languishing in a psychological prison of its own making," the publication says. "Today, on its way out, it is bequeathing a bad hand to Trump, one made markedly worse by the administration’s solipsism."